Word: cellars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggest that he was riding high above any threat of purge: the Order of Lenin, the Hammer & Sickle Gold Medal, the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. The identical honors were once dealt out to Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, who made a one-way trip to a Moscow cellar last December...
...French army in time to be wounded again in Italy. Before war's end he went back into Germany and helped capture Karlsruhe and Freudenstadt for the Allies. Once De Castries strolled through a burn ing town during an enemy bombardment, calmly picked an inn where the wine cellar was to his taste and ordered lunch for his officers. The inn caught fire. De Castries just ordered more champagne. "We'll finish our meal," he told the innkeeper. "Send for the fire chief." To the chief he snapped: "Turn your hoses on this house...
...from Cuban ebony," says Sherlock, "[and] there is a slight but regular scraping . . . along the left side of the handle, just where the ring finger of a left-handed man would close upon the grip." "Dear me, how simple," chuckles Mr. Wilson, blandly leading Holmes down to the cellar stove in which he keeps two specimens of the Galeodes spider-"the horror of the Cuban forests [which] possesses the power ... to break the spine . . . with a single blow of its mandibles...
With ten points each and matching (5-9) season totals, Adams and Leverett followed. Kirkland (3-10-1) was next to last with seven points, and the cellar position went to Lowell, which won only a single victory in 14 games...
Hough takes on the task of trying to manage the Crimson into a higher position in the E.I.B.L. This year the team finished in the cellar...